On 8/28/2011 2:56 PM, woooee wrote:
Two main routines, __main__ and main(),
'__main__' in not a routine, it is the name of the initial module.
is not the usual or the common way to do it. It is confusing and anyone looking at the end of the program for statements executed when the program is called will find an isolated call to main(), and then have to search the program for the statements that should have been at the bottom of the program. The only reason to use such a technique in Python is if you want to call the function if the program is run from the command line, and also call the same function if the program is imported from another. In which case, use a name that is descriptive, not "main". And be careful of anyone that gives you programming advice. Research these things for yourself.
As far as I know, all the Lib/test/test_xxx.py file have a test_main function, so one can write (in IDLE, for instance)
from test.test_xxx import test_main as f; f() and run that test. Very handy. -- Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
